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BY MONICA DOBIE
WINE production waste – or pomace – the seeds, skin and stems of crushed grapes, could be commercially developed as a natural inhibitor against several types of bacteria, a new study has claimed. Research by Turkish academics published in the UK-based Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, showed that pomace has high concentrations of antioxidants which, when mixed with methanol in concentrations ranging from 0.5% to 20%, prevented the growth of 14 types of bacteria including E-coli, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus and enterobacter aerogenes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AWARD to Cyprus of the key European Commission health and consumer affairs portfolio could signal a waning of Brussels’ enthusiasm for tougher rules against smoking and cigarette sales. Cypriot Markos Kyprianou, 44, has been given the job in the new Commission that takes office in November.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IF the Danish agriculture minister Mariann Fischer Boel succeeds in winning the farm portfolio in the new European Commission, for which she has been nominated by the new president Senhor Jose Manuel Barroso, she may well rank as the most outspokenly reformist politician to have held the post.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for improved monitoring of feeding-stuffs to establish safe levels of exposure for the fungus zearalenone for all livestock. EFSA is concerned that the fungus – found in maize, soybeans, cereals, straw and hay – could reduce fertility in exposed farm animals, especially female pigs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has raised human health concerns about the use of Monteban® G100, a feed additive controlling the poultry infection coccidiosis. The authority recommended “the use of appropriate personnel protective equipment for the workers”, noting it can “cause irritation to the eyes but not to the skin”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority has undermined Austrian and Greek blocks on sales of GM maize and oilseed rape (respectively) possessing prior EU market approval. EFSA concluded they had “no new scientific evidence” of human health or environmental risks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) could expand restrictions on the sale of jelly mini-cups, the gelatinous confectionary blamed for causing dangerous choking in young people. This follows advice from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that any mini-cup made with a gel-forming additive “could cause choking and not just in children”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH Greece and Cyprus are taking over the key European Commission jobs for the cosmetics, soap and perfumery sectors, the enthusiasm of Brussels for tougher environmental, consumer protection and animal welfare rules could wane.

Cypriot Markos Kyprianou has been appointed as health and consumer affairs commissioner in the new Commission that takes office in November.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission could totally ban jelly mini-cups across Europe, following advice from the European Food Safety Authority that any mini-cup – whatever its additives – “could cause choking and not just in children”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SALMONELLA outbreak involving almonds in California, USA, that sickened at least 25 people, resulted in the Food and Drug Administration recalling 13 million pounds of the nuts, produced by the Paramount Farms company, located in the state’s Central Valley.…